Publications A-Z
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Loading...Advertising Effectiveness in Film Distribution
September 2003: The UK Film Council's Research and Statistics Unit (RSU) commissioned a piece of research into the effectiveness of advertising expenditure for UK cinema releases. The brief was to use methods of econometric analysis on the RSU's UK film database to estimate the impact of advertising upon box office receipts and distributors' rentals and examine whether it differed across advertising media and types of film.
It is one of the UK Film Council's main policy priorities to ensure optimum fit between UK film policy and UK broadcasting policy. To this end, the organisation works closely with the UK's public service broadcasters, the regulatory body, Ofcom, and the European Commission to make the case for film whenever and wherever relevant.
In this section, you will find publications and submissions that the UK Film Council has made concerning the BBC, Ofcom and the European Commission's Television Without Frontiers Directive.
Cultural Capital: Maximising Public Value across the Cultural and Broadcasting Sectors
Tuesday 17 January 2006
The digital era is fundamentally reshaping public service broadcasting providing myriad new opportunities for audiences to enjoy creative and cultural work via digital television and radio, broadband and mobile platforms.
The UK Film Council in partnership with Arts Council England, the British Film Institute, the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council and NESTA hosted the Cultural Capital seminar with those working in the creative, cultural and broadcasting sectors to discuss joint ways to strengthen creative and cultural activity in broadcasting. Please click on the links below for a full set of reports from the debate.
The UK Film Council believes that the digital distribution of films to the home and to mobile devices presents an opportunity to increase significantly access to independently produced and distributed UK films and specialised film within the UK.
It has commissioned a series of reports, available on this page, to examine how public policy interventions might assist in ensuring that such digital distribution does enhance access to film.
Also available, for reference, are papers relating to the development of the UK Film Council's thinking on the challenges and opportunities presented by digital technologies.
Since 1 January 2005, the UK Film Council, as a public body, has been subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000. This Act seeks to increase the transparency of public bodies in terms of how they carry out their work, thereby increasing accountability and providing additional incentives to ensure that the public sector is making decisions and taking actions based on robust, clear and well-documented advice.
The Future Film Value Toolkit (also known as Video on Demand toolkit) is a standard Excel spreadsheet with drop down selection boxes and a few simple macro buttons to help users compare and contrast different scenarios easily. It enables the user to analyse forecast revenues from different forms of exploitation, constructed in a way to show the possible financial effect of audience shifts from one medium to another.
India: Report on visit to India
The UK Film Council is developing a new strategy for internationalactivity and is seeking to forge strategic alliances with emergingterritories such as India and South Africa.
In the UK today, citizens' use of media to communicate and express themselves, through the world of picture and 3G phones, blogs and home video editing software, generates a total output greater than that of all the world's TV stations. But although most people are already avid media consumers, not everyone necessarily has the skills to understand or question media, or the know-how to express their own ideas through it.
This is what encouraging media literacy is all about: giving everyone the choice to communicate, create and participate fully in today's fast-moving world. This will help create a society in which everyone is enfranchised and articulate - whatever their economic, social or cultural background - and in which the UK's creative and knowledge economies are able to draw upon the widest possible bank of consumers, creators and producers.
For these reasons, the UK Film Council has a strong commitment to developing media literacy throughout the Nations and Regions of the UK. This is articulated in its policy priority, set out on page 18 of Film in a Digital Age, to ensure media literacy is a key component in the Government agenda for life-long learning, and in its target to develop and implement in partnership with key stakeholders a joined-up strategy in which film and the moving image play a prominent part.
For a more comprehensive view of media literacy developments please see the newly launched website http://www.medialiteracy.org.uk/
MEDIA 2007 is the successor to the current 'MEDIA Plus' edition of the MEDIA Programme which comes to a close at the end of 2006. MEDIA 2007 will run from 2007-2013. The shaping of this new edition of the funding initiative has been underway since 2003, and the UK Film Council has made submissions to consultations by the European Commission and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to help inform the development of the programme.
The UK Film Council and the Department of Trade and Industry have published a report on the UK's £1.4 billion post production sector.
Regional investment fund for England (including regional screen agencies)
The nine Regional Screen Agencies receive £7.5 million a year from the UK Film Council for regional film production and film culture.
Research and Statistics Bulletins
Each year, the Research and Statistics Unit publishes several bulletins which supplement and update the data in the Statistical Yearbook.
The UK Film Council and Skillset have announced a plan to invest £50 million over 5 years into developing the film industry workforce.
Specialised Distribution and Exhibition
The downloads available on this page are for reference purposes and do not represent the UK Film Council's current priorities on specialised distribution and exhibition. For these, please refer to Our Second Three Year Plan, and for more information on funding for specialised distribution and exhibition, please click here.
The Statistical Yearbook is a rich source of industry data and analysis, drawn from a range of reputable suppliers and detailing the full value chain for film.
The cultural life of ethnic communities in England
A picture of the cultural life of ethnic communities in England has been published by Arts Council England in partnership with the UK Film Council and Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries. The report details attendance, participation and attitudes to the arts amongst England's culturally diverse population.
At a time when the UK Film Council was looking to the future, beginning to consider the emerging priorities for film that would inform the development of its third three year plan, the organisation took a timely look back over its achievements since its establishment in 2000. The First Six Years describes how the UK Film Council's policy and funding initiatives helped contribute to a dynamic industry and a vibrant film culture, each feeding the other and both enhancing the way Britain and British people see themselves and their future in the global community.
November 2005: In 2003, the British Film Institute and the UK Film Council commissioned a study to measure and assess the impact of local cinemas on the social, cultural and economic life of their communities. Two Regional Screen Agencies; EM Media and Film London, funded case study elements of the project. For more information, please see the Statistics section.
The public consultation paper that set out the UK Film Council's proposed funding and policy priorities for 2004-07.
UK Film Council Annual Reports and Accounts
In this section can be found the annual reports and accounts of the UK Film Council for each financial year since its inception.
